Holmes also needed-or at least would very much have appreciated, sophisticated gadgetry of a sort that could make very fine measurements from tiny samples, and as we have seen it was all he could do to get a simple adding machine.

霍姆斯还需要──至少会很高兴拥有：一种能对细小样品进行精密测量的先进仪器，而我们已经知道，他所能得到的不过是一台简单的加法机。